Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement.

TIL that display manufacturers are also part of the reason why we aren’t getting small phones and why it’s probably even harder for manufacturers like Fairphone to make them.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    On the other end there doesn’t seem to be any phablets either. they are all weirdly long screens.

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        1 year ago

        I had an og Dell Streak when it first came out. It absolutely blew people’s minds when they saw it back then.

        Looked up some old reviews of it and can’t beleive it was a 5" screen. In my mind, I remember it being so much bigger.

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      1 year ago

      Almost all popular mainstream Android phones are absolutely phablet sized to the point that it’s now the standard, and not the outlier. Your perception has just changed.

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        1 year ago

        I’m still using my mi max 3 that’s 6.9" screen, no modern phone seems to be able to match that.